Re:Uber Plans Millions in Back Pay After Shortchanging NYC D...
by Jabanga on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @01:11AM
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>It's absurd how much our country is going to profit models that consist of nothing more than "make the same revenue, and externalize the costs onto society."
Uber is not externalising costs to society. It is providing employment opportunities that otherwise would not exist, and rides at prices that would otherwise be higher.
Taking market share from competitors by offering consumers lower prices is not a case of "externalizing costs onto society".
This here is one of my all time favorite false-equivalences.
People performing sit-ins during the Civil Rights era, or women standing up for their right to vote are equivalent to a corporation that wants to run without paying for its drivers health-insurance.
It's another example of the common trope in the news media of "we must cover both sides of the issue". Yes a cashier skimping you on one penny in your change is technically a moral issue - but it's really not.
It's absurd how much our country is going to profit models that consist of nothing more than "make the same revenue, and externalize the costs onto society."